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the rest of us? Join me now on BBC Two, 11pm in Scotland. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Here on BBC One, it's time for the news where you are. | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
Plans to half air passenger duty on flights from Scotland have been | :00:08. | :00:12. | |
Ministers say it will encourage more direct links | :00:13. | :00:17. | |
But environmental groups say the change would increase carbon | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
Here's our political correspondent, Glenn Campbell. | :00:22. | :00:35. | |
Edinburgh airport has grown to become the busiest in Scotland, with | :00:36. | :00:44. | |
out big cuts in air passenger duty. Everybody says, you are growing and | :00:45. | :00:51. | |
it is fine. He cannot have too much success. We need to get the lines | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
here and connect Scotland to the rest of the world and then we can | :00:55. | :00:59. | |
take advantage of that. If the passenger duty is halved, a study | :01:00. | :01:04. | |
has suggested the Scottish economy could receive a boost. That would | :01:05. | :01:13. | |
generate far more van would be lost in tax revenues. Ministers are | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
consulting on plans to make that cut over three years between April 2018, | :01:18. | :01:24. | |
if the wind the Holyrood election. We want to reduce the passenger duty | :01:25. | :01:30. | |
with the objective of improving the economic performance of Scotland, | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
creating employment within Scotland. Labour does not support a cut in | :01:36. | :01:41. | |
duty. We think it is the wrong cut at the wrong time. It will benefit | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
the wealthiest people and want to benefit those who are struggling to | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
make ends meet. Environmental campaigners are also against. A | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
transport is the highest place for campaigners are also against. A | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
transmissions of climate emissions. If you cut the taxes then more | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
people will be flying and more emissions and that is bad for the | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
environment. More efficient planes are helping to offset the emissions | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
caused by traffic growth. EasyJet are helping to offset the emissions | :02:11. | :02:16. | |
says it intends to carry 1.5 million passengers per year to and from | :02:17. | :02:23. | |
Scotland if duty is halved. That makes English airports envious. The | :02:24. | :02:25. | |
Scottish Government are firming makes English airports envious. The | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
on their plans. What we are doing is giving Scotland a | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
on their plans. What we are doing is their competitors are places like | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
the north-east. We want a level playing field. When you fly from a | :02:38. | :02:45. | |
UK airport, duty adds ?73 to a long haul flight. It seems a cut would | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
influence the plans of some Scottish travel lawyers. -- travellers. I do | :02:50. | :02:57. | |
not think I would go there again. That would be great news. There does | :02:58. | :03:06. | |
seem to be, should I say and unfairness that flights that are | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
cheaper if you are travelling from Manchester or from London? Take the | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
easier flight than need more expensive flight. The changes in | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
Scotland are still two years away, after the tax is devolved. The | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
Chancellor has exempted under 16 's anti-could choose to make further UK | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
wide changes to the tax in this week's budget. | :03:33. | :03:34. | |
The Health and Safety Executive is liaising with police over | :03:35. | :03:37. | |
the deaths of twin brothers who drowned in a fish tank | :03:38. | :03:39. | |
Rhys and Shaun Scott, who were two years old, | :03:40. | :03:49. | |
It's understood the family rented the property from a man who'd run | :03:50. | :03:52. | |
a business from there, selling ornamental koi carp. | :03:53. | :03:54. | |
The Executive can prosecute landlords if tenants have been | :03:55. | :03:56. | |
Universities will have to take in a fifth of their students | :03:57. | :04:02. | |
from the most deprived parts of Scotland by 2030. | :04:03. | :04:04. | |
That's the target set by the Scottish government | :04:05. | :04:06. | |
in response to a major report on widening access | :04:07. | :04:08. | |
But as our education correspondent Jamie McIvor reports, | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
helping more young people from disadvantaged areas get | :04:14. | :04:15. | |
Gary Patterson never expected to end up in university. He grew up in a | :04:16. | :04:34. | |
deprived area and left school at 16. Now, ten years on, he is president | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
of the student union. Growing up in a socially deprived environment it | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
is not something that you think of. I think that's a shame. The Scottish | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
Government said helping more people to overcome barriers is the | :04:50. | :04:56. | |
priority. The Government is setting new targets or universities will | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
have to get more students from disadvantaged areas. By the time | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
these youngsters are grown up, it will be one in five. We want to make | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
further and faster progress in widening access because it is not | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
just the right thing to do but it is the smart thing to do to tap into | :05:14. | :05:19. | |
all talents. We have to recognise that all the talent and the young | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
people that we have, that talent exists in every community in | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
Scotland. The targets were one recommendation made by a special | :05:29. | :05:35. | |
commission. The report has taken one year to produce. Nobody is | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
pretending they are easy answers. One is addressing misconceptions of | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
who goes to university. People do want this to happen but we do not | :05:46. | :05:52. | |
know how to do it. We know a lot now about how this could be done. One | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
suggestion is a special commissioner to it make sure there is progress. | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
Pupils also have to work hard to make sure they get to university. | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
These girls hope they will be the first and their families to get in. | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
When I was younger that there was nothing that made me want to go. It | :06:10. | :06:16. | |
was just the opportunities that it would bring, like the opportunities | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
of employment. Nobody would pretend that helping young people to fulfil | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
their potential is a good game but the Government is questioning | :06:27. | :06:34. | |
whether it is helping it. It comes out at a time when we have seen half | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
?1 billion of cuts to schools and services. Back at Strathclyde | :06:40. | :06:46. | |
University, Gary uses his story to help others. Widening access is a | :06:47. | :06:49. | |
long-term, complex problem. A lorry has overturned prompting | :06:50. | :06:51. | |
the closure of part of the M8 motorway between | :06:52. | :06:54. | |
Edinburgh and Glasgow. Police Scotland said | :06:55. | :06:56. | |
the incident happened The westbound carriageway was closed | :06:57. | :06:58. | |
with diversions in place. It's almost three months since homes | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
and businesses in the Aberdeenshire town of Ballater were damaged | :07:03. | :07:04. | |
by severe flooding. Today a sign that things | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
are returning to normal with the reopening of the first shop | :07:08. | :07:10. | |
in the flooded High Street. But as John McManus reports there's | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
still concern about the way one insurance firm has been | :07:14. | :07:16. | |
dealing with claims. This is an institution on Deeside, | :07:17. | :07:30. | |
even the Queen orders her meet here. It was closed in the floods. Now it | :07:31. | :07:37. | |
is leading Ballater's revival. The thing is, we got in here early and | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
got things dried out. We did a refit in a few years ago and there were | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
plans for the refit. We were straight to them. Down the street, | :07:49. | :07:50. | |
other shops are rushing to get ready straight to them. Down the street, | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
for the two wrist season. This is the heart of Ballater and it is | :07:56. | :08:05. | |
slowly returning to normal. Like today, it is hard to feel | :08:06. | :08:07. | |
enthusiastic for the future. It is a long time since the flooding. If you | :08:08. | :08:17. | |
weeks ago Karen told us how her insurance policy was voided but she | :08:18. | :08:23. | |
is still fighting. They have been in contact and giving us lots of good | :08:24. | :08:29. | |
advice and communications with them. They are helping us as much as they | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
can. It has been very tough. I do not sleep very well. Every night you | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
go to bed and there is something else to think about. Around the | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
coroner David has been renovating his hands himself after his | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
insurance firm voided his policy. I am waiting to bite the bullet and | :08:50. | :08:58. | |
think this was a disaster. This was flooding from two kilometres away, | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
not from my neighbour. Everything came down and went towards. Even | :09:04. | :09:09. | |
during the height of the flood, the water level here was higher than in | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
the river. Some have gone to the reverend David Bara. There are about | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
ten families that I know of and the range from old people to people with | :09:20. | :09:27. | |
children and everything in between. Emotional and people are resilient | :09:28. | :09:33. | |
but it is taking their toll to be told you are getting nothing. I do | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
not care if the hear this from me because, do you know what? My boss | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
is bigger than anyone else's boss and I hope they have a good look at | :09:44. | :09:49. | |
themselves. I hope they do. We asked them for the side of the story but | :09:50. | :09:52. | |
they said they would not discuss details with the media. | :09:53. | :09:59. | |
The firm which operated the helicopter that crashed | :10:00. | :10:01. | |
into the Clutha pub in Glasgow has had its contract renewed by Police | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
The seven-year deal with Bond Air Services includes | :10:06. | :10:07. | |
a helicopter fitted with a cockpit voice and flight data recorder. | :10:08. | :10:10. | |
Ten people died and 32 people were injured after the helicopter | :10:11. | :10:12. | |
crashed into the roof of the Clutha pub in November 2013. | :10:13. | :10:15. | |
No black-box recorder was fitted to that aircraft. | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
Police Scotland is investigating reports of historical abuse | :10:20. | :10:21. | |
The private school is one of the most exclusive in Scotland. | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
Its former pupils include Tony Blair and Sir David Murray. | :10:27. | :10:29. | |
A spokeswoman for the college says it has co-operated fully | :10:30. | :10:31. | |
Britain's most decorated Olympian says the commitment shown | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
by the Scottish Government and Sportscotland is helping ensure | :10:36. | :10:37. | |
a lasting legacy from Glasgow's Commonwealth Games. | :10:38. | :10:40. | |
Sir Chris Hoy visited Drumchapel Sports Centre | :10:41. | :10:43. | |
in the city, lending his support to community sports hubs. | :10:44. | :10:46. | |
There are 153 of them, and ?6 million will be | :10:47. | :10:49. | |
invested over 4 years in the hope of increasing that number. | :10:50. | :10:57. | |
The more people who are participating in sport, there is | :10:58. | :11:04. | |
more chance of someone being an Olympian champion, is Scotland | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
champion, who knows? That is the exciting thing. That is not what it | :11:09. | :11:14. | |
is about, it is about participation and enjoyment. If we create an | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
Olympian of the back of it, even better. | :11:20. | :11:21. | |
Well, let's get the weather from Judith. | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
It was a beautiful day across Scotland. Quite a contrast in | :11:27. | :11:38. | |
temperatures. A warm 16 Celsius towards the west and eight along the | :11:39. | :11:39. | |
east coast. It is staying with us towards the west and eight along the | :11:40. | :11:46. | |
over the next few days. Tonight it stays dry with clearing skies and a | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
touch of frost integral parts. We will start to see hard drifting in | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
by the time we reach tomorrow morning. It starts off dry tomorrow | :11:56. | :12:04. | |
with grey skies. It may be some frost across rural parts. Cold first | :12:05. | :12:10. | |
thing with four Celsius in towns and cities but in rural parts close to | :12:11. | :12:16. | |
freezing. Those grey skies in the Northern Isles. The rest of the day | :12:17. | :12:24. | |
fears well. Sunny spells across western Scotland and clouds in the | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
east. Some will be pushing through the lowlands by the end of the | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
afternoon. A lovely end towards the end of the day. Brightening up | :12:34. | :12:40. | |
around the Norfolk coast towards the south-east. Cool along the east | :12:41. | :12:47. | |
itself. Tomorrow, apart from the east coast where it will stay cool, | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
the highest temperatures across Scotland. Possibly the highest of | :12:52. | :12:58. | |
this year so far. Widely up to 14 or 15 Celsius in the west. The rest of | :12:59. | :13:01. | |
the day will be good in the west. High-pressure in charge of our | :13:02. | :13:12. | |
weather right through the working week. Easterly breeze starts to | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
bring in more cloud across the country. By Wednesday a cloudy | :13:17. | :13:22. | |
start. Still plenty of sunshine in the west. There is your forecast. | :13:23. | :13:24. | |
Our next update is during Breakfast at 6.25 tomorrow morning. | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
But from everyone on the late team here in Glasgow and around | :13:29. | :13:46. | |
So this is where you sleep every night? Yes. Hm. | :13:47. | :13:49. |